Homecoming: Marina Abramovic and Her Children

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After almost 40 years, Marina Abramovic returns to the place where she was born and raised, the place she left, or escaped from, so to speak. In this process, she takes with her all her work and a truck loaded with emotions, memories and bitterness. However, she is also accompanied by young artists and their interpreters, who carry their own burden of inexperience, a cult of heroes and the hunger for knowledge. 

"I come from a dark place, Tito's Yugoslavia," says Marina Abramović at the start of the film, which captures her heartwarming return. The journey to her native Belgrade where the Serbian performer now calls home after many years leads us to the various cities where her traveling exhibition The Cleaner is being presented. The artist recalls her tumultuous relationship with her homeland, her parents and her own body, and recapitulates how she crossed the border between states and between creator and audience. Her work springs to life not only in archive footage, but also in the performances of young performers who, much like her children, carry on their "mother's" legacy.

Film shown in English with Spanish subtitles.

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